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Frequently Asked Questions on Sacred Music 2 Church Music Association of America | Musicasacra.com “As a manifestation of the human spirit,” said John Paul II in 1989, “music performs a function which is noble, unique, and irreplaceable. When it is truly beautiful and inspired, it speaks to us more than all the other arts of goodness, virtue, peace, of matters holy and divine. Not for nothing has it always been, and will it always be, an essential part of the liturgy.” Q: What are the characteristics of sacred music? A: On the centenary of its promulgation, John Paul II urged us to revisit and learn from St. Pius X’s Motu Proprio on Sacred Music, Tra le sollecitudini (1903). Pope Pius distinguished three characteristics of sacred Frequently Asked Questions music: “it must possess holiness and beauty of form: On Sacred Music from these two qualities a third will spontaneously arise—universality” (§2). Church Music Association of America Concerning holiness, for music to be sacred means it is not the ordinary, not the every-day. It is set aside for the purpose of glorifying God and edifying and sanctifying the faithful. It must therefore exclude all that is not suitable for the temple—all that is ordi- Q: What is sacred music? nary, every-day or profane, not only in itself, but also A: Sacred music is “that which, being created for the in the manner in which it is performed. The sacred celebration of divine worship, is endowed with a cer- words of the Liturgy call for a sonic vesture that is tain holy sincerity of form,” according to the Sacred equally sacred. Sacredness, then, is more than indi- Congregation of Rites in its Instruction on Music and vidual piety; it is an objective reality. the Liturgy, Musicam Sacram (1967, ¶4). As defined Concerning beauty, the Latin speaks more precisely of by the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanc- tum Concilium (1963), sacred music surpasses merely bonitate formarum or “excellence of forms.” This re- religious music when it is joined to the liturgical rite fers to the tendency of sacred music to synthesize di- to become “a necessary and integral part of the sol- verse ritual elements into a unity, to draw together a emn liturgy,” whose purpose is “the glory of God and succession of liturgical actions into a coherent whole, the sanctification of the faithful” (¶112). and to serve a range of sacred expressions. Excellence Frequently Asked Questions on Sacred Music 3 4 Church Music Association of America | Musicasacra.com of forms also serves to differentiate those elements, to aesthetic sensibilities, memory, physical gestures, and distinguish the various functions of liturgical chants powers of expression. Appropriate feeling is necessary by revealing their unique character. Each chant of the for the communication and assimilation of religious various Gregorian genres presents a masterly adapta- truth. The Church’s insistence on music of a unique tion of the text to its specific liturgical purpose. No sort is intended not merely to stimulate feelings in a wonder the Church has consistently proposed chant general way, but to exemplify Christian truth and as the paradigm of sacred music. convey transcendent mysteries using an appropriate form of expression. As Cardinal Ratzinger has written, Sacred music must be true art, says Pope Pius, “oth- sacred music “elevates the spirit precisely by wedding erwise it will be impossible for it to exercise on the it to the senses, and it elevates the senses by uniting minds of those who listen to it that efficacy which the them with the spirit” (The Spirit of the Liturgy, 150). Church aims at obtaining in admitting into her liturgy the art of musical sounds.” Beauty is what holds truth Q: Isn’t this really just a matter of taste? and goodness to their task. To paraphrase Hans Urs von Balthasar, without beauty, the truth does not per- A: Nothing prevents us from preferring one form of suade, goodness does not compel (The Glory of the music to another. What’s more, nothing prevents us Lord: A Theological Aesthetics, I: 19). Beauty, as ex- from preferring one form of popular religious song to pressed in the Church’s liturgy, synthesizes diverse another. But music that is suitable for sacred liturgy elements into a unified whole: truth, goodness, and must be of a special sort. No longer can personal pref- the human impulse to worship. erence be the sole criterion. “Not all musical forms can be considered suitable for liturgical celebrations,” Concerning universality, sacred music is supra nation- says Pope John Paul II in his Chirograph on sacred al, equally accessible to people of diverse cultures. music (2003). He quotes Pope Paul VI: “If music— The Church does admit local indigenous forms into instrumental and vocal—does not possess at the same her worship, but these must be subordinated to the time the sense of prayer, dignity, and beauty, entry general characteristics of the received tradition. By into the sphere of the sacred and the religious is insisting on the continuous use of her musical treas- [thereby] precluded.” ures, especially chant, the Church ensures her mem- bers grow up hearing this sacred musical language and In his general audience of February 26, 2003, Pope receive it naturally as a part of the liturgy. John Paul called on musicians to “make an examina- tion of conscience so that the beauty of music and Q: Why should we care? hymnody will return once again to the liturgy. It is necessary to purify worship of ugliness of style, care- A: Celebrating the liturgy involves the whole person: less forms of expression, ill-prepared music and texts, intellect and will, emotions and senses, imagination, Frequently Asked Questions on Sacred Music 5 6 Church Music Association of America | Musicasacra.com which are not worthy of the great act that is being them. It musically expresses the heart of the Church celebrated.” and thus exists across and outside time. Q: Why should we regard Gregorian chant as Q: What is the origin of Gregorian chant? the ideal? A: Singing has been a part of Christian worship since A: From her earliest days, the Roman Church has the earliest days of the Church. The chant, as it has clothed her worship with Gregorian chant. Through been handed down to us and as it emerged from the the centuries she has safeguarded the chant as her rearrangements and reforms of the 7th, 8th and 9th own unique form of music, and through those same centuries, has not entirely retained its primitive form. strains she continues to teach and pray, mourn and It unites within itself inherited elements that are rejoice in her liturgy. For these reasons, Gregorian much older and have been synthesized by either re- chant is the “supreme model for sacred music” (Pope forming or preserving them. Pius X) and the music proper to the Roman Church. Five main streams of inherited material flow together Throughout the 20th century, this fact was reiterated into the chant, and within the melodic classifications in official Church teaching on sacred music. Sacro- of the chant they remain formally distinguishable sanctum Concilium affirms it, as does the General In- from each other to this day. These include Jewish solo struction on the Roman Missal. As Pope John Paul II psalmody, whose basic model is preserved in the Invi- said, quoting Pope Pius X, “The more closely a com- tatory, the Responsories, and the Tract; the monastic position for church approaches in its movement, choir psalmody of the Divine Office; the ancient art inspiration and savor the Gregorian form, the more of depicting faith in song; the ancient cantillation of sacred and liturgical it becomes; and the more out of the priests and lectors in the tones of orations and harmony it is with that supreme model, the less wor- readings; and the popular elements of various kinds in thy it is of the temple.” Pope Benedict XVI agrees: the acclamations, doxologies, and simple hymns and “An authentic updating of sacred music can take antiphons. place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the The melodic material in Gregorian chant derived from past, of Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony.” such diverse sources has nonetheless acquired one Chant is the one music that we inherit from the an- spirit: it is the Christian spirit, with its new desire to cient Church fathers. It is not a “style” but the music express something which lends its living breath to of the Mass itself. It is sung in unison, which makes it these melodies. The result is the Roman chant, the a perfect expression of unity. It illuminates and gives cantilena Romana. expressiveness to the sacred texts, but it does not alter The term Gregorian chant comes from its early asso- ciation with Pope St. Gregory the Great (6th cen- Frequently Asked Questions on Sacred Music 7 8 Church Music Association of America | Musicasacra.com tury). According to 8th century tradition, Pope Greg- for an increased use of chant, which much better ex- ory was inspired by the Holy Ghost to codify the presses the meaning and form which tradition has chant of the Roman Rite. The consensus today, based given individual parts of the liturgy (§10). on extant documents, is that the Gregorian melodies The Council drew on the teachings of Pope Pius, and developed in the 8th and 9th centuries form a synthe- sought to continue the restoration that he had begun sis of Roman chant and Gallican practice, as pro- by calling for the completion of a critical edition of moted by the Carolingian rulers in Francia.
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